Building-wall construction.



No. 857,628. 4 PATENTED mm 25, 1901.

, T. JONAS.

BUILDING WALL CONSTRUCTION.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented June- 25, 1907.

Application filed Octob r 12,1906. Sarial'No. 282,465.

To alt whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEODORE Joms, a citizen of the United States,residing at Republic,in the county of Greene and State of Missouri, haveinvented certain new anduseful Improvements in Building- WallConstructions, of which the following is a speci: fication. 1 1 I Thisinvention involves novel building wall construction, ,the essentialfeaturesgf the invention residing in the provision of con: struction ofthis t )e intended to resist to the greatest possible e ree thepenetration of dampness, frost or t e like and at the same time theinvention is designed to secure'a poses desired. I

The invention also involves a peculiar. form of bond-block, theconstruction and advantages of which will appear fully in the or a fulldescription of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquirea knowledge of the details of construction of the means for efiectingthe result, reference appended description.

is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, inwhich:

Figure 1. is a plan view showing a building wall structure in accordancewith the invention. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of one of thebond-blocks,

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the samereference characters.

The invention utilizes the rinciple of the air space'in the building w bwhich the non-penetrable qualities thereo are greatly subserved. In carr'ng out the invention and referring to the rawings, the characters A andB designate spaced tiers of building blocks 1, said tiers beingconnected by means of a bond-block 2 of peculiar form. The spacedrelation-of the tiers A and B of blocks 1. provides the air spaces 3between said tiers and this air space will necessarily obviatelikelihood of penetration of dampness, frost or the like to a greatdegree as has been noted in the practical use of wallconstruction of,this type. Opposite end portions of adja'- cent blocks 1 of each-tier Aand B are formed with seats or recesses 4 so as to receive interlockingheads 5 which roject from op osite sides cf the bond-bloc s2. jjIt ispre erred that the recesses or seats 4 of the blocks 1 be of angularcontour or many sided, and the block.

heads 5 ofthe bond-blocks are designed to snugl fifit in pairs ofadjacent seats 4 to interlock t erewith. In the construction shown, theheads 5 are of somewhat dove-tail form and the seats 4 so receive theheads of the bond-blocks as to establish a ositive interlockingconnection between t e blocks 1 of each tier A and B in the manner whichwill be readily seen. The bodies of the blocks 2 are arranged betweenthe tiers of blocks 1 and space the tiers apart accurately to form theair s ace 3. 4

The b ocks 2 speaking, equal to the thickness of one or may be of alength, vertically more of the tiers ofsuperposed blocks 1 as is broughtout more clearly in the modification.

in Fig. 3, but it will be understood that this feature is nonessentialin the broad contemlation of the invention. The seats 4 of the locks 1extend from the inner sides of the blocks and terminate some distancefrom the outer sides so that adjacent ends of the several blocks 1 ofeach tier A and B are in contact as indicated at 6.

It will be observed that opposite ends of the body portion of the block2 project beyond the sides of the extensions or heads 5,

or in other words, the block is longer than the diametrical extent ofthe heads 5 at the points of jointure of the latter with the body of theblock. The above construction forms shoulders 2 at opposite ends of theblock 2, projecting from opposite sides of each of the heads 5, andthese shoulders abut with the inner sides of the blocks 1 of the spacedtiers A and B. The formation of the shoulders 2 not only increases theresisting quality of the blocks 2, so far as regards inward pressure onthe tiers A and B, but when the blocks 2 are in ,osition and mortared tothe tiers A and B, t e shouldered portions 2* increase the bondingaction of the blocks in an obvious way.

In the constructionbefore described, the blocks 1 may be made of plasticmaterial of a suitable nature and molded in amannersimilar to the mannerof forming the majority of building blocks now in use.

It is tobe noted that each building block 1 -is provided at its innerside only with a single dove-tailed tenon 10 the angular faces of whichcoincide with and constitute a portion of the end boundaries of theblock, the remaining portion 6 of said'end boundaries extendingerpendicular to the outer side of the t will be seen also that each bondblock 5 is composed of a body portion providing at each end tworectangular shoulders converging walls joining the diverging walls at anangle and meeting at the perpendicular abutting portions 6 of thebuilding blocks. Hence by this arrangement it-is not necessary, inbuilding a wall, to fit any block into its mating block with a downwardmovement, to effect the binding action, but taking Fig. 1 for instanceit will be seen that the first bond block to the left may be slidsidewise into the two building blocks at the extreme left that are shownbroken away, then the next two building blocks fitted in with a sidewiseor sliding movement against the opposite side of the bond block and soon around the wall. This has an advantage, obviously, and is ac-'complished by the precise arrangement shown and set forth in theappended claim.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is:

In wall construction, the combination of inner and outer walls spacedapart, each wall being of like structure and composed of blocks laid incourses, the vertical joints between opposing blocks aliningtransversely, each block having a terminal abutting surface at its outercorner and a V-shaped recess at its inner corner, whereby adjacentblocks butt at their outer corners and have mortises formed betweentheir ends at the inner cbr ners, said mortises having their wallsoutthence inwardly converged for the remainder of theirlength, andspacing bond blocks tying the walls and spaced apart and having oppositelateral extensions to come between the wall blocks, and end tenonsfitted in the aforesaid mortises, said tenons 'having their wallsoutwardly diverged, thence inwardly converged, the said bond blocksbreaking joint witlrthe wall blocks, the wall blocks and the spacingbond blocks being laid in courses in the formation of the wall.

In testimony whereof I afi'ix my signature 5 in presence of twowitnesses.

THEODORE JONAS. Witnesses: 5 WALTER A. Coos, i W. L. OBRYENT.

wardly diverged for a part of their length,

